What did the Lib Dems do for us? Quite a lot

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It’s easy to kick Nick Clegg’s party for its mistakes. But it’s absurd to want to vote them into political oblivion

The video begins with a piece of paper flapping in the wind. “No student tuition fees — Labour,” it says. “We’ll clean up politics — Conservative,” reads another, pressed on to the ground. A third, filmed on the bank of the Thames, declares: “We’ll abolish boom and bust.”

(Enter smug politician.) This “nation has been littered” with broken promises, says the man, gesticulating with his arms as he walks through the streets, passing hundreds more A4 sheets blowing in the wind. But his party is different: “I believe it is time for promises to be kept.”